background: social capital has been defined as norms, networks, and social links that facilitate collective actions. social capital is related to a number of main social and public health variables. therefore, the present study aimed to determine the factors associated with social capital among the residents of tehran, iran.   methods: in this large cross-sectional population-based study, 31531...

S. Bistarelli1, S.N. Foley2, B. O’Sullivan3, F. Santini4∗ 1Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia and Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (CNR) and Dipartimento di Scienze, Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti Pescara, Italy 2Department of Computer Science University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 3Department of Computer Science University College Cork and Cork Constraint Co...

In order to cooperate in the open distributed environment, truster agents need to be aware trustworthiness of trustee agents for selecting suitable interaction partners. Most of the current computational trust models make use of the truster itself experience or reputation from community on trustees to compute the trust values. However, in some circumstances, a truster agent may have no experien...

trust is an important element in human relations and cooperation between members of the organization. trust can be the interpersonal or inter-group, in special mode; or be generalized and related to the whole organization in general mode. special-generalized trust as a complex interactive process is influenced by various personal and social factors and variables. some of the most important fact...

the goal of the present paper has been investigating social trust and the factors affecting it among women in three villages of three different iranian provinces. the two research questions of the study are: 1. how is social trust perceived by rural women? 2. what factors affect rural women’s social trust? the data were collected by distributing a questionnaire among a sample of 300 women comin...

internet is integrated into nearly all aspects of activities including businesses. it is a medium that can be accessed anywhere. the advancement of internet has contributed to the development of electronic commerce and trust has been suggested in the literature to play an essential role in the development of e-commerce. lately, e-commerce has also taken placed in a new platform, social networki...

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. The method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in Meybod and Ardakan (Yazd). Data collected by Moorman's (1999) organizational justice questio...